“It is a week-to-week hotel. I’ve been living here six months now, and it’s basically if you can’t pay your rent on your due date, you have to leave the property,” she said.

The woman asked not to be identified for fear of losing the only place she has to call home.

“There's a lot of families who live in this hotel, the hotel across the street,” she said. “School buses come here to pick up the kids so people are aware that we're here because they have to send the school buses here.”

People living in hotels aren't considered homeless by the federal government, so there is no total count of how many live in hotels and motels in Central Florida.

But Florida Department of Education data shows in the 2017-2018 school year more than 2,000 Orange County Public School students reported motels as their permanent residence. A reported 1,139 students said the same in Osceola County.